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How to use the word grandeur in a Sentence?

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In the kingdom of self love, I reign as an unapologetic black king, Adorned in the aesthetics of my truth. Let them speak, let them roar: their insults are mere echoes in the grandeur of my existence. What they say will fade, for i am the architect of my own narrative, where confidence is my crown, and acceptance is my throne. There is nothing they can do to dim the brilliance of my royal spirit

Christen Kuikoua

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2 months ago

God is the creator, we are the masterpiece fashioned to radiate and display his grandeur.

Benita Owobi

added by BenitaO
3 years ago

For too long, we have overlooked the inherent racism of these monuments, and for too long we have allowed the grandeur of the architecture to blind us to the insult of glorifying men for their roles in fighting to perpetuate the inhumanity of slavery.

Mark Herring

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I think it does make a difference to those who feel that these rituals uphold the grandeur of Hinduism, and so they take pride in that, they see that the state is putting in so much money, and they justify it by arguing that 'we are the rightful citizens and the state should put money into our events'.

Romila Thapar

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

It's unsightly and unsanitary, it's a health issue and an environmental nightmare, i experienced the thrill and grandeur of Gorak Shep, but I also saw what happens when we, the Western world, leave, as if our waste doesn't stink.

Garry Porter

Found on CNN
5 years ago

That is an extraordinary important part of what is going on in Washington, D.C., despite all of the grandeur of this setting, and the television photos and members of the Supreme Court, members of the Cabinet, out there is a highly regarded investigator who is looking into whether or not he broke the law.

Tom Brokaw

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Don't beg anyone for any form of gratification, be it mental, psychological or sexual, for resorting to such practices in itself is an insult to your existence. Celebrate in your own grandeur with dignity!

RAMANA PEMMARAJU

added by Ramana Pemmaraju
6 years ago

Words do not do justice to the grandeur of this remarkable place.

Donald Trump

Found on CNN
6 years ago

Maybe 100 years from now -- maybe it's delusions of grandeur -- but I hope people will look at it and say this was the turning point that got people to understand what it means to be a conservationist.

Corey Knowlton

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.

Charles Spurgeon

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Now, I am opposed to the franchise in the District [of Columbia]; I am opposed, and not because I yield to any one in my support and belief in the principles of self-government; but principles are applicable generally, and then, unless you make exceptions to the application of these principles, you will find that they will carry you to very illogical and absurd results. This was taken out of the application of the principle of self-government in the very Constitution that was intended to put that in force in every other part of the country, and it was done because it was intended to have the representatives of all the people in the country control this one city, and to prevent its being controlled by the parochial spirit that would necessarily govern men who did not look beyond the city to the grandeur of the nation, and this as the representative of that nation.

William Howard Taft

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic love.

Georges Bataille

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Mozart has the classic purity of light and the blue ocean; Beethoven the romantic grandeur which belongs to the storms of air and sea, and while the soul of Mozart seems to dwell on the ethereal peaks of Olympus, that of Beethoven climbs shuddering the storm-beaten sides of a Sinai. Blessed be they both! Each represents a moment of the ideal life, each does us good. Our love is due to both.

Henri-Frédéric Amiel

added by anonymous
10 years ago

The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.

Jean Cocteau

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Some are able and humane men and some are low-grade individuals with the morals of a goat, the artistic integrity of a slot machine, and the manners of a floorwalker with delusions of grandeur.

Raymond Chandler

added by anonymous
10 years ago

The sword is the axis of the world, and grandeur is indivisible.

Charles de Gaulle

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Surely there is grandeur in knowing that in the realm of thought, at least, you are without a chain; that you have the right to explore all heights and depth; that there are no walls nor fences, nor prohibited places, nor sacred corners in all the vast expanse of thought...

Robert G. Ingersoll

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

added by anonymous
10 years ago

He can feel no little wants who is in pursuit of grandeur.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

added by anonymous
10 years ago

There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.

Charles Darwin

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves.

Marcelene Cox

added by anonymous
13 years ago

If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

Albert Camus

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Delusions of grandeur make me feel a lot better about myself.

Jane Wagner

added by anonymous
14 years ago

A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart.

Pietro Aretino

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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